Three Kingdoms

  Chapter 998 Intercepting the Grain Road

   "If there is a dispute, there must be a reason..." Jia Xu said indifferently, "Fighting and fighting are deceiving..."

  Xu Huang asked: "It's deceitful? What's the explanation?"

  Jia Xu squinted his eyes slightly, with shrewd light shining in his slender pupils, took out a piece of silk cloth from his sleeve, put it on the table and unfolded it, like a topographical map of Yinshan Mountain.

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  Jia Xu pointed at the overview map with his finger, and said, "Lieutenant Xu, please take a look, where is the place where fights frequently occur in Jinri?"

  Xu Huang frowned, and looked at the small dots that Jia Xu marked on the profile map to represent disputes and fights for territory. The more he looked at it, the more he felt something was wrong.

  These small points, surrounding the entire terrain of Yinshan Mountain, are almost all over the key points of the transportation roads to and from Yinshan Mountain, as well as the area near the camp gate on the edge of the fortress...

  Xu Huang stood up abruptly, gritted his teeth and said, "Thief! How dare you play tricks like this under someone's nose!"

The entire government structure of Yinshan was created during the initial period, and many things could not be arranged in place. After all, whether it is Xu Huang, Zhang Ji, or Ma Yue, they all have their own responsibilities, so many things are just a general framework. And not managed to a very detailed level.

  Although Xu Huang had some doubts in his heart before, in front of Jia Xu's profile picture, he had a new answer.

  There were no places where Han people settled near Yinshan Mountain, and because the overall area is relatively large, at the beginning, the personnel were only distributed along the two sides of the road, based on the principle of convenience and proximity.

   These things, Xu Huang and the others are military generals after all, so they just planned it roughly, and didn't manage it in detail. Now, looking at it now, it is obvious that there is a problem.

  Jia Xu stretched out his palm and pressed it down, motioned for a moment, and said: "Lieutenant Xu, be safe and don't be impatient... How can you be judged guilty based on this alone? What do you want to do?"

   Regardless of whether the fights are intentional or unintentional, since they have been punished before, and now they suddenly run over and arrest them again to discuss crimes, let alone other things, what good is it for the stability of the people?

Regarding the matter of public opinion, regardless of whether it is right or wrong, even if they are completely ignorant of the incident, most of them will still subconsciously lean towards the side that seems to be weak. If all the people involved are caught or killed, it is certainly possible to avoid temporary troubles, but for the hearts of the people, I am afraid it will leave a very bad impression...

These people were originally unwilling to travel thousands of miles to come to the place where they live next to the Hu people, and the land has not been cultivated, and they will face the threat of war at any time. These people feel panicked, and it is difficult to avoid the situation where people flee secretly before they have established their household registration.

And once some of these ordinary people start to go into exile, the blind herd mentality will affect more people, which will not only weaken the strength of the Han people in Yinshan, but also a great blow to the grain and grass that Feiqian put into the Yinshan area before. waste.

It is necessary to maintain the stability of the Han people on the Yinshan side, not to show jokes to the Xiongnu, and at the same time not to reveal flaws, but also to expose hidden dangers and eliminate them. This is not just mindless fighting, killing and killing can be completely solved that's it.

  Jia Xu stroked his beard slightly, and said, "Xianbei is about to come, Captain Xu should apply for the army ration..."

  Xu Huang's face sank like water, and the anger between his brows could not be concealed, and he said: "...Wenhe means, this thief wants to rob our army rations?!"

  The initial reclamation of Yinshan Mountain cannot be self-sufficient, and it needs to be transported from Pingyang.

   "Without food and grass, why is Yinshan in chaos?" Jia Xu also said with a stern face.

  Since ancient times, as long as there is food and clothing, most of the people will not be chaotic. If you want to profit from it, you must first cause chaos in the Yinshan Mountains, and grain and grass, an important stabilizing factor, must be its target.

  Xu Huang twitched his cheeks twice, and said in a word: "Shameless thief! Ingratitude!"

   Jia Xu smiled faintly, noncommittal, because this matter, from Fei Qian's side, might be just like what Xu Huang said, but what about from another angle?

   It’s nothing more than a different position under the buttocks, but now that I have come to Yinshan, what kind of tricks do I want to play under my nose, hehehe…

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  The grain and grass of the Feiqian army come and go between Pingyang and Yinshan, which has actually aroused some people's attention.

   On the south side of Yinshan Fortress, in a gathering camp near the road, two men squatted together, looking at the fortress of the Fiqian army beyond the fence, talking in a low voice.

   "The commander-in-chief really said that?" Yang Feng's eyes were shining on his swarthy face, and he finally had to wait until this day.

   Wulu, who was sitting opposite Yang Feng, nodded, looked around and said in a low voice, "A batch of weapons will arrive tomorrow, and then..."

   Wulu's voice became smaller and smaller as he spoke, until it was inaudible.

  The Black Mountain Army has always wanted a piece of land of their own, a real arable land, and no longer continue to deal with the stones all over the mountains, but such a wish has never been realized.

Yang Feng and Wulu, although their faces and bodies are covered with dust and yellow mud at this moment, no different from ordinary farmers, their spirits are very excited, and their heads are almost together. place.

   I have to say that wanting a piece of land is not only the idea of ​​Zhang Yan, the leader of Montenegro, but also an obsession of these leaders of Montenegro.

Regarding Fei Qian's move to disperse their personnel, this group of Montenegrin people quickly found a way to let some small bosses act as commanders and lead them to Pingyang, while people like Yang Feng or Wulu were mixed in. Among the ordinary Montenegrin people, those small bosses were left in Pingyang, and Yang Feng and Wulu followed most of the people to Yinshan.

Zhao Yun is willing to believe in Fei Qian, because Zhao Yun did get what he wanted from Fei Qian, such as the opportunity to study, the chance to be promoted, and the chance to change from black to white, but these old leaders in Montenegro are Holding a different idea-but there is no good person who is an official!

   If you want to wait until the end to be bullied by these officials, it is better to hold your destiny in your own hands from the beginning!

  However, with the development of Yinshan, Feiqian's authority gradually increased, and it seemed that such hope was disappearing little by little. However, he did not expect another opportunity to be presented in front of the Black Mountain Army.

   As long as you seize this opportunity, all the hard work will be worth it. The Montenegrin Army can get rid of the restriction of no land, and the population of hundreds of thousands can be fully developed. In this world, why should they hand over their lives to others?

  Fei Qian doesn't look at the prestige, how many troops does he have in total?

   What's more, there are Xianbei people at the front...

   "Commander, what shall we do then? Do we want to make a move?"

"Hey, our people don't move for the time being... Anyway, it's only these two days..." Yang Feng patted Wulu's shoulder with a big hand, turned his head slightly to one side, pouted, and said, "...and then , we should cause some trouble for that... This group of guys, who yell and drink all day long, and the whip wound on my back still hurts, why don't we get back some of the capital and interest?"

  The two of them looked at each other, and then chuckled lightly.

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  Zhang Baiqi of the Black Mountain Army led his men and horses, and had already quietly bypassed Luliang Mountain and came to the vicinity of Meiji.

  The Southern King’s Court, which was originally the Huns, is now in a mess, with no human habitation within dozens of miles, which is just suitable for hiding troops and supplying war horses for repair.

  Now the Black Mountain Army’s war horses are all obtained from Gongsun Zan, in fact, most of them are Wuhuan horses, but these are irrelevant, now Zhang Baiqi wants to cut off the food supply road for Fei Qian’s army first!

   Zhang Baiqi really admired Zhang Yan's arrangement this time.

Cut off Feiqian's military rations first, and then the Yinshan Mountain will be in chaos, and if the Yinshan Mountain is in chaos, then the Xianbei people outside the Yinshan Mountain will definitely not let go of this opportunity. The result is bound to be the best chance for the Black Mountain Army...

   Of course, there are risks.

   But if you don't take risks, you may end up with nothing. Now the whole situation of the big man is confusing, fighting everywhere, don't use this opportunity to fight for a piece of land, should we wait until everything has been dusted before making a move?

   "Commander!" A scout rushed to the front, "Food and grass! The south, the food and grass from the south are here!"

  Zhang Baiqi laughed loudly, clapped his hands heavily, and shouted: "Come here, pass the order, let's move your motherfuckers! It's alive! Rabbits work harder, and you can let go of your belly to eat at night!"

  Zhang Baiqi brought a full 2,000 cavalry this time, which is also the largest number that Montenegro can draw out at this stage. The main one is that it is difficult to get horses, and the second is that it is difficult to find riders.

Regarding the matter of war horses, Zhang Yan had nothing to do. If Gongsun Zan hadn't sent a batch as a condition for cooperation, I'm afraid they wouldn't have been able to form them. As for the cavalry, after all, the Black Mountain Army had a huge base, and they had collected two or three thousand. People know how to ride, and after practicing for a while, they can barely enter the battle. Of course, what kind of battle formation, what kind of riding and shooting are all uneven...

Two thousand cavalry, it is said that the cavalry are more like horse thieves, starting from Meiji in a swarm, along the valley, like a hornet that has been stabbed in its old nest, the black and white ones ran away yelling all the way To the food transport troops who came from afar.

   This army is not actually under Fei Qian's rule, but belongs to Cui Jun's army in Xihe County.

  Ever since Fei Qian left Yinshan for Guanzhong, Cui Jun didn't stay in Zhenlin camp for long before returning to Xihe County's headquarters, and handing over Zhenlin camp to one of his generals.

This partial general is usually stationed in the Zhenlin camp, and is only responsible for the deployment and arrangement of military rations, equipment, manpower and other transfers. In fact, it is quite easy, and it has been peaceful all the time, so So they gradually relaxed, so when the grain transport team from Zhenlin to Yinshan was suddenly attacked, almost everyone was dumbfounded and couldn't react...

Neither the **** soldiers nor the coolie laborers expected that there would be enemy troops here. They always thought that this road was extremely safe, with only hardships on the road, but no danger. Suddenly they saw thousands of The cavalry rushed over without any preparation, and collapsed all of a sudden.

Although the military marquis in charge of transporting grain and grass calmed down somewhat, he shouted loudly, hoping to command his subordinates to arrange the trucks transporting grain and grass to form a car formation, and then defend within the car formation, but he was petrified. Ordinary soldiers were panicked and moved slowly. Even if there were orders, some still couldn't distinguish between left and right, and then several baggage trucks collided into one place, making the scene even more chaotic...

  As for the peasants, they were even more terrified. Taking advantage of the carelessness of the escorting soldiers around them, they secretly dropped grain and grass, and fled around in the grass or bushes on both sides of the road.

   The chaotic team couldn't form an effective barrier at all. Zhang Baiqi quickly led his men and horses in, charging and ramming, killing wantonly, easily crushing the last bit of resistance.

  The Montenegrin cavalry shouted recklessly, heaving on their horses excitedly, chasing and chasing the fleeing crowd, bringing up puffs of blood. The personnel of the food transportation team in disarray panicked and only knew how to run and hide, and the little courage they had was also disappeared without a trace amidst the screams and blood of other people around them.

   "Surrender! We surrender! Don't kill us..." Seeing that he couldn't run away, a soldier threw his knife and gun and knelt down on the ground, kowtowed and begged for mercy loudly, not even daring to lift his head.

"We are peasants, coolies! Don't kill us!" Some peasants who couldn't escape shivered and curled up beside the wheels of the baggage cart, hiding under the carriage, their faces pale, holding their heads and screaming. .

  The knights of Montenegro galloped back and forth on their horses. Zhang Baiqi laughed and waved his blood-stained sword. The rapid sound of horseshoes rolled up smoke and dust, completely engulfing the entire grain transportation team.

  The battle was short and ended soon.

   Several trucks dumped on the ground, the grain and grass bags that were originally bundled were scattered all over the ground, and some wheat millet fell out, exuding an attractive luster, and several Montenegrin soldiers laughed and grabbed a handful and ate it...

   "Damn, you starving ghost!" Zhang Baiqi laughed and cursed, and then waved his saber, "The team is closed... bring everything you can bring, and those you can't take... burn..."

  (end of this chapter)